'Plunder' definitions:
Definition of 'plunder'
From: WordNet
noun
verb
Take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder]
verb
Plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome" [syn: sack, plunder]
verb
Steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
verb
Definition of 'Plunder'
From: GCIDE
- Plunder \Plun"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plundering.] [G. pl["u]ndern to plunder, plunder frippery, baggage.]
- 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. [1913 Webster]
- Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To pillage; despoil; sack; rifle; strip; rob. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Plunder'
From: GCIDE
- Plunder \Plun"der\, n.
- 1. The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage. [1913 Webster]
- Inroads and plunders of the Saracens. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud. "He shared in the plunder." --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'plunder'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- banditry,
- blackmail,
- boodle,
- booty,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- capture,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- devastate,
- direption,
- fleece,
- forage,
- foraging,
- foray,
- freeboot,
- freebooting,
- graft,
- gut,
- haul,
- hot goods,
- knock off,
- knock over,
- lay waste,
- loot,
- looting,
- maraud,
- marauding,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- pirate,
- plundering,
- pork barrel,
- prey on,
- prize,
- public till,
- public trough,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ransack,
- ransacking,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- raven,
- ravish,
- ravishment,
- razzia,
- reive,
- reiving,
- relieve,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- rob,
- robbery,
- sack,
- sacking,
- seize,
- spoil,
- spoiling,
- spoils,
- spoils of office,
- spoliate,
- spoliation,
- squeeze,
- stealings,
- stick up,
- stolen goods,
- strip,
- swag,
- sweep,
- take,
- things,
- till,
- traps,
- tricks,
- vandalism,
- vandalize